Treaty of Peace with Germany: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session, 2. osaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 1090 pages |
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adjourned allied and associated American delegation American representatives apply unless notice associated powers BARUCH bill billions burden of Germany Central Powers CHAIRMAN citizens claim clearing system collect commissioners committee desire COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN desire to ask disposition economic provisions effect is given enemy property England fixed sum following article 244 FOREIGN RELATIONS four powers German debtor give notice HENRY CABOT LODGE House international labor conference JOHNSON of California large customer matter nations Norman Davis notice is given notice to stay obligations PALMER paragraph 15 proceeds of enemy proposed treaty question ratify the treaty reestablishment reparation commission request Secretary of Labor Secretary WILSON Senator FALL Senator HARDING Senator HITCHCOCK Senator JOHNSON Senator KNOX Senator MCCUMBER Senator MOSES Senator PITTMAN Senator POMERENE Senator SWANSON Senator WILLIAMS Taussig tion treaty of peace United States Government UNITED STATES SENATE various powers want to ask whole economic section yesterday
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Page 38 - Commission will issue to each of the interested Powers, in such form as the Commission shall fix : (1) A certificate stating that it holds for the account of the said Power bonds of the issues mentioned above, the said certificate, on the demand of the Power concerned, being divisible...
Page 37 - The Allied and Associated Powers who have adopted this Article and the Annex hereto may agree between themselves to apply them to their respective nationals established in their territory so far as regards matters between their nationals and German nationals.
Page 36 - The provisions of this Article and of the Annex hereto shall not apply as between Germany on the one hand and any one of the Allied and Associated Powers, their colonies or protectorates, or any one of the British Dominions or India on the other hand, unless within a period of one month from the deposit of the ratification of the present Treaty by the Power in question...
Page 31 - Provided, however, That nothing herein shall be held to authorize the President to appoint any delegates to represent the United States of America at such conference or to authorize the United States of America to participate therein unless and until the Senate shall have ratified the provisions of the proposed treaty of peace with Germany with reference to a general international labor conference.
Page 38 - The Commission will issue to each of the interested Powers, in such form as the Commission shall fix : (1) A certificate stating that it holds for the account of the said Power bonds of the issues mentioned above, the said certificate, on the demand of the Power concerned, being divisible in a number of parts not exceeding five; (2) From time to time certificates stating the goods delivered by Germany on account of her reparation debt which it holds for the account of the said Power.
Page 31 - Washington, DC The committee met at 10.30 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 224 Senate Office Building, Senator James E.
Page 39 - Commission, may be transferred by endorsement. When bonds are issued for sale or negotiation, and when goods are delivered by the Commission, certificates to an equivalent value must be withdrawn. 16. Interest shall be debited to...
Page 43 - Poland, and these other countries except after a great length of time, in order to find out what the bill would be. We could not say what the bill was; we could not determine it without an examination; and Germany was not in a condition to find out what she could pay. The only way we could examine the question was to make a guess, or leave it open in the way we did. Senator JOHNSON of California. You sought in the first instance to have a specific amount fixed.
Page 34 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, that remark I made was perhaps a little more general than I intended. What I intended to say was that the citizens of the United States would be better protected if the United States did not adopt the clearing system than if they did. I did not intend to differentiate between the citizens of the United States and those of any other nation as the remark would indicate. That was not my view. Senator FALL. That is what I wanted to clear up. Mr. PALMER. I am talking about...
Page 32 - Senators will probably remember that we passed as an amendment to an appropriation bill a prohibition on the President to call any conventions here without action by Congress. Senator WILLIAMS. Hence the necessity of this bill. The CHAIRMAN. Hence the necessity of the bill. We will hear the Secretary of Labor. STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIAM B. WILSON, SECRETARY OF LABOR. Secretary WILSON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, as stated in the preamble, the proposed treaty of peace which the committee...